qdap

qdap (Quantitative Discourse Analysis Package) is an R package designed to assist in quantitative discourse analysis. The package stands as a bridge between qualitative transcripts of dialogue and statistical analysis and visualization.

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Installation

To download the development version of qdap:

Download the zip ball or tar ball, decompress and run R CMD INSTALL on it, or use the devtools package to install the development version:

# install.packages("devtools")

library(devtools)
install_github("qdap", "trinker")

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Note: Windows users need Rtools and devtools to install this way.

Additionally, Windows users currently must install RCurl before installing qdap. Use the following short script:

 URL <- "http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/";
install.packages("RCurl", contriburl = URL)

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Help

The qdap web page: trinker.github.com/qdap [improvements to come]

For a variety of qdap help files and videos click here.

For the package pdf help manual click here.